Lung Cancer Clinical Trials

January 2015 - January 2017
Many missed and delayed cancer diagnoses result from breakdowns in communication and coordination of abnormal findings suspicious for cancer, which often first emerge in the primary care setting. Delays in the follow-up of abnormal test results persist despite the reliable delivery of test results through the electronic health record. This intervention is the final study in a three-phase project that will develop and test an innovative automated surveillance intervention to improve timely diagnosis and follow-up of five common cancers in primary care practice. We hypothesize that the median time in days from diagnostic clue to follow-up action (e.g. time to colonoscopy examination after am abnormal colon-related test) will be significantly less in the intervention arm than in usual care. We also hypothesize that the proportion of patients receiving appropriate and timely follow-up care will be significantly higher in the intervention arm than in usual care. Sponsor: Department of Veterans Affairs

September 2013 -
This clinical research study is made up of 2 phases. The goal of phase 1 of this clinical research study is to find the highest dose of DOTAP:Chol-fus1 that can be safely given in combination with Tarceva (erlotinib hydrochloride) to patients with NSCLC. The goal of phase 2 of this clinical research study is to learn if the combination of DOTAP:Chol-fus1 and erlotinib hydrochloride can help to control NSCLC. The safety of this drug combination will also be studied in both phases. DOTAP:Chol-fus1 is a drug that helps transfer a gene called fus1 into cancer cells. Researchers think that cells without this gene may be involved in the development of lung cancer tumors. They want to find out if replacing the gene in these cells may keep the tissue from forming cancer cells. Erlotinib hydrochloride is designed to block a protein on tumor cells that may control tumor growth and survival. This may stop tumors from growing. Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

August 2013 - May 2016
The main purpose of this study is to find out if the drugs MEK162 and erlotinib (Tarceva) given in combination are safe and have beneficial effects in patients who have NSCLC. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved MEK162 for use to treat NSCLC. Erlotinib is an FDA approved drug for the treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Sponsor: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

July 2013 -
The goal of this clinical research study is to test the use of a minimally invasive multimodality image-guided (MIMIG) intervention system used for performing a lung biopsy. The safety of the MIMIG intervention system will also be studied. Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

June 2013 - March 2016
Introducing standardized data collection (SDC) for lung cancer patients to improve the performance of the prediction models. Sponsor: Maastricht Radiation Oncology

June 2013 - April 2015
Lung cancer is the most lethal cancer, killing ~1.3 million people worldwide every year. Early diagnosis could increase its survival by 3-4 folds. Therefore the yield of screening for lung cancer is not a question anymore and the urgent unmet need is to define the group that is under a high risk for lung cancer. Our lab is focusing on revealing non-invasive biomarkers as for early detection of lung cancer. This study specifically focuses on biomarkers that are found in exhaled breath. These biomarkers are known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs).The VOCs' profile can discriminate between those who suffer from lung cancer and healthy individuals. It is well established that a cancer cell can activate their glycolysis (glucose degradation) pathway in order to survive. This links malignant processes with this basic biochemical, metabolic cycle. This study will focus on the unique processes incurred by glycolysis in the tumor cells and its effect on the surrounding environment. By better understanding and revealing the exact mechanism, it will become possible to identify the biomarkers released by malignant cells that use glycolysis as a source of energy. This study's goal is to identify and analyze those distinguishing VOCs. The hope is that these VOCs will provide a new innovative possibility of developing the so desperately needed, early-detection lung cancer screening method. This research will collect and analyze the exhaled breath of participants. The exhaled breath will be obtained before and after a glucose challenge test, in which the participant is asked to drink a solution containing water and glucose. This study will involve a total of seventy participants, fifty of which currently suffer from active lung cancer, while the remaining participants belong to a high-risk group. Sponsor: Sheba Medical Center

June 2013 - January 2020
This project will test the effect of enalapril to mitigate the lung damage that can occur as a side effect of radiation therapy for lung cancer. Thousands of veterans develop lung cancer every year, and are treated by radiation therapy. Studies of lung radiation injury in laboratory animals show that with enalapril, investigators can significantly reduce the severity of radiation injury to the lung. Enalapril is FDA approved and in common use for treatment of hypertension, kidney disease, and heart failure. These studies will advance that work to human use. Successful mitigation of lung radiation damage will improve the quality of life in veterans and non-veterans who are treated for lung cancer by radiation, and may also improve cure rates of radiation therapy for lung cancer. Sponsor: Department of Veterans Affairs

May 2013 -
This research study is a Phase II clinical trial, which tests the safety and effectiveness of an investigational drug to learn whether the drug works in treating a specific cancer. "Investigational" means that the drug is being studied. It also means that the FDA has not yet approved sunitinib for your type of cancer. Sunitinib has been approved by the FDA for treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, advanced renal cell carcinoma and advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. While most chemotherapies work by interfering with cancer cell replication, sunitinib works by blocking certain protein signals within the cell. Because sunitinib works differently from standard intravenous chemotherapies, we call it a "targeted therapy." This drug has also been used in other research studies and information from those other research studies suggests that this agent may help to slow the growth of some NSCLC tumors. In this research study, we are looking to see if sunitinib may stop certain NSCLC tumors from growing. The study focuses on a type of NSCLC, adenocarcinoma, which has previously been found to be more sensitive to other kinds of oral targeted therapies. This study will focus specifically on (1) adenocarcinoma tumors that do not carry a mutation in a known cancer gene (EGFR, KRAS, or ALK) and occur in patients that never smoked (less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime) or (2) adenocarcinoma tumors that have a mutation in the RET gene. Sponsor: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

April 2013 - September 2014
The goal of this trial is to demonstrate the potential clinical benefit of irinotecan chemotherapy in patients with a specific NSCLC phenotype, ISG15-positive. The use of irinotecan in subjects with ISG15-positive NSCLC will be associated with an improved rate of clinical benefit (objective response, disease stability, and time to progression) compared to historical controls that were not previously selected for ISG-15 expression. Sponsor: University of Kentucky

April 2013 - February 2015
The purpose of this study is to determine if the images of the primary lesions of lung cancer and any metastatic lesions seen from the investigational SPECT/CT 99mTC-EC-DG scans are the same as the PET/CT 18F-FDG scans. Sponsor: Cell>Point LLC